Improvement in faucets and vents



T. TALLEY, Jr.

FAUGET AND VENT. 11 474323. Patented Feb. 22, 1878 NPEYERS, PHOTO LITHOGRAPHEFL WASMINGYON. D C

. Fig. 4 is another view of the sleeve.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES TALLEY, JR, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

I FIMPROVE'MQENT IN FAUCETS ANDVENTS;

Specification forming part. of Letters Patent No. 174.028, dated February 22, 1876; application filed j I January 14, 1 876.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES TALLEY, Jr., of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Im )roved Faucet and Vent; and I do hereby dec are that the following is a full, clear, and' exact description of the-same. y

. My present invention is an" improvement upon the liquid vent for which Letters Patent No. 152,565weregranted to H. W. Love and myself as joint inventors. The function of the device is twofold: first, to admit air into a barrel, keg, cask, or other vessel, in order to sleeve, provided with oppositely-located. airvent and liquid-discharge holes, is applied to the hollow gimlet-pointed stem, and adapted to be rotated therein and locked in either of the two positions necessary to proper performance of the above-stated functions.

The invention also consists in a corkscrew.

and brush attachment, and in certain other features and details of construction, as here inafter described. a v a In theaccom pan yin g drawing, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation, constituting a general view of the instrument; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the same without the brush and cork-screw attachment. Fig. 3 shows the rotating sleeve of the faucettube, showing the reverse side from Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents the brush and cork-screw detached, andwith the parts adjusted for carrying in the pocket.

piston is provided with a packing of cork and Fig. 6 represents the same with the cork-screw adjusted for use.

india-rubber, and a rubber washer is applied to the rod 0 immediately beneath head or tlnnnbpiece a The swelling of the cork in the piston-'packing-will compensate for wear, and the washer serves to form a tight joint around the plunger when'the piston is forced down and locked by the lugs a, to hold the same below and awn y from the vent-holes. A

rotating sleeve or tube, E, is applied to the I body of tube B, which is correspondingly reduced in diameter to form a smooth exterior, as shown, Fig. 2. This sleeve or tube-has three liquid-discharge orifices, 1), arranged spirally, or in the relation of the three points of a triangle, and the hollow stem B has a similar arrangement of holes, 0. The sleeve E has also smaller air-vent openings d, and

the stem B corresponding holes 0.

When the sleeve E is adjusted in one posi- I tion, Fig. l, itsholes b will register with holes 0' in tube A, and the piston having been and closes the vent-holes d e, and in the other the holes b 0, so that when one set is open the other is not. As a means of loeking the sleeve in either position or adjustment, and permitting it to be readily changed from one to the other, as occasion requires, I provide the same with two oppositely-located notches, i, at its upper end, and attach a springcatch, F, to the T-tube, as shown, Figs. 2 and 3. By raising the free end of thespring its squared pin 0 will be removed from the notch tin the sleeve,

thus permitting the latter to be rotated and locked ,in the other position. p

This adjustment may be easily and quickly made, so that the device may be employed for either of its functions without delay or inconvenience, and without detaching one part from an other.

As an attachment of said deyice I employ der, f,vis also formed at the base of stein J,

Figs. 5 and 6.

By this construction itresults that the corkscrew may be attached to tube A, asshown in Fig. 1, the plug I in such case closing the end of said tube, and. adapting-thedevice for use' as a faucet.

It will also be seen that in such case the brush-tube forms a lever-extension of tube A, which is useful in screwing thahit,into alban rel or cask. i

The cork-screw and brush-tube may; be detached, asin :Fig. 5, and thn'saconveniently' carried in the pocket,'and also .iusedas corkscrew separately.

When the cork-screw is required for. use the stem J isfs'crewed into the threadedholesh in: the middle ofthe brush-tube Gr, asshown,-Fig.

combination.withglthe {Ft-shaped air I faucet-tuba.- ior formingjuanf. extension? thereof -forv use. in; bori n g as set; forth.

6, soth at the latter thus becornesa cross handle. V WhatI claim is 1. The'combination, with the hollow perfo- .rated stem, of the adjustable sleeve, having coincident orifices, for either air-vent or liqnid-d ischarge, ,suhstantiallyas shown and described.

2. The combination," with the adjustable sleev'e,'--haviiig notches i, and air-vent and liquid-discharge openings, and the hollow stem B, having corresponding faucet and air-vent zopeningsib c and d e,.of the spring -.catc h F, 1 torilocking said sleeve in either adjustment, t adapt the device to perform either of its specified functions, as set forth. 7 l

3. The brush-tuhesvand cork screw. plng,- in t1 and 1 J Esm LLEY, :JR. 

